Richard Dawkins was recently issued a challenge --disprove creation in one sentence. I can do that myself. Here it is: If we can see Andromeda --some 2.5 MILLION years distant from earth --then creationism is false!

Karen Armstrong's insistence that meaning is impossible to find without a deity is insulting. And to be precise, it is "gods" and "religions," not "God" that is here to stay. Finally, her insistence that we all must live with religion in "a balanced, compassionate manner" also means accepting that some wish to live without. Her inability to see the merits atheism is just as blind as Christopher Hitchens' insistence that all religion is based upon "totalitarian belief" and "the wish to be a slave." In the end, both make the mistake of the presumptive, inflexible evangelist.

All right, after getting to listen to a full program of Stephanie Miller this morning. I never imagined that the biggest ROTFLOL would come immediately thereafter, on a casual visit to YouTube. But first, if you haven't seen the Richard Dawkins ACTUAL interview with The Honorable Reverend Ted Haggard (who used to have a weekly telephone chat with George Bush in the White House before his drugs and gay sex scandal), you have to see it first.

Critics of religion were criticized last night by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who said the way in which Christians viewed God had been misinterpreted."Don't distract us from the real arguments by assuming that religion is an eccentric survival strategy or irrational form of explanation,' Williams said. 'Our culture is one that deeply praises science, so we assume because someone is a good scientist, they must be a good philosopher. My inner jury is out on that."

In a recent interview with the Guardian, Richard Dawkins, author of ,The God Delusion, expresses some rather controversial views on American Foreign policy.In his own words... [AIPAC]"more or less monopolize American foreign policy as far as many people can see. So if atheists could achieve a small fraction of that influence,the world would be a better place"